Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-301

As used in this article:

1. "Vital statistics" means records of birth, death, fetal

death and data related thereto;

2. "System of vital statistics" means the registration,

collection, preservation, amendment and certification of vital

statistics records, and activities related thereto, including the

tabulation, analysis and publication of statistical data derived

from such records;

3. "Filing" means the presentation of a certificate, report or

other record provided for in this article, of a birth, death, fetal

death or adoption, for registration by the Commissioner of Health;

4. "Registration" means the acceptance by the Commissioner of

Health and the incorporation in his or her official records of

certificates, reports or other records provided for in this article,

of births, deaths, fetal deaths or adoptions;

5. "Live birth" means the complete expulsion or extraction from

the mother of a product of human conception, irrespective of the

duration of pregnancy, which, after such expulsion or extraction,

breathes or shows any other evidence of life such as beating of the

heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord or definite movement of

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voluntary muscles, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or

the placenta is attached;

6. "Stillbirth" or "stillborn child" means a fetal death;

7. "Certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth" means a

certificate issued to memorialize a stillborn child;

8. "Fetal death" means death prior to the complete expulsion or

extraction from its mother of a product of human conception after

the fetus has advanced to or beyond the twelfth week of

uterogestation. The death is indicated by the fact that, after such

expulsion or extraction, the fetus does not breathe or show any

other evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of

the umbilical cord or definite movement of voluntary muscles;

9. "Dead body" means an individual who is determined to be dead

pursuant to the provisions of the Uniform Determination of Death

Act;

10. "Final disposition" means the burial, interment, cremation,

or other disposition of a dead body or fetus;

11. "Physician" means a person who is a member of the class of

persons authorized to use the term "physician" pursuant to Section

725.2 of Title 59 of the Oklahoma Statutes;

12. "Institution" means any establishment, public or private,

which provides inpatient medical, surgical or diagnostic care or

treatment, or nursing, custodial or domiciliary care, to two or more

unrelated individuals, or to which persons are committed by law;

13. "Disinterment" means the recovery of human remains by

exhumation or disentombment. "Disinterment" does not include the

raising and lowering of remains to accommodate two interments within

a single grave and does not include the repositioning of an outside

burial container that encroaches on adjoining burial space; and

14. "Minor correction" means fixing a scrivener's error,

correcting an error in the spelling of a name or word of common

knowledge, filling in an erroneous omission, deleting an erroneous

addition, or something similar. To obtain a minor correction, an

applicant shall provide clear and convincing evidence of an

objective error that was knowable at or near the time the

certificate was made.